ktay95 said:
Look Im sure the rest of your post had some good points to make but Retro are no Rare, thats in both quality and sales |
Quality is subjective, but if we look at critical acclaim, all 3 Metroid Prime games are at 90+ on Metacritic, with the original one consistently appearing on best games of all time lists. Donkey Kong Country Returns is at 87, so again, a very good reception.
Sales-wise, DKC Returns is over 6m and over DKC 2 and 3. Sure, it didn't reach the 1st game, but would you call that a failure ? The Prime games are different beasts from Goldeneye/Perfect Dark, so I don't think it's fair to compare them here. An FPS game focused on exploration, without a focus on multiplayer and based on a niche IP was never going to get to Goldeneye numbers, specially when FPS games on consoles are far more common nowadays.
In any case, my point was that Retro is equivalent to Rare in the way they're positioned right now, as Nintendo's prime Western developer. Rare is not coming back, so there's no point to compare them here beyond that.
